Race, Sex and Power
This paper will explore the themes of race, sex and how stereotypes assign power to them. I will use Lutz and Collin’s article, “The Color of Sex: Postwar Photographic Histories of Race and Gender,” to examine the history behind race and gender as well as the stereotypes for different races and genders. I will also use director Heredia’s 1993 documentary, The Couple in the Cage, to examine how people of different countries depict and stereotype indigenous people. Finally, I will use directors Diamond, Bainbridge and Hayes’ 2009 documentary, The Real Injun, to examine how a camp for boys with a majority of white males depicts Native Americans. In this essay I show how different people depict race and gender to display that stereotypes are unjust and need to be challenged.
The following reading and documentaries focus on how race and gender stereotypes categorizes people. In Cathrine A. Lutz and Jane L. Collin’s article, “The Color of Sex: Postwar Photographic Histories of Race and Gender,” they …show more content…
The article concludes how black people were never subjects of photos and were depicted as less fortunate while women were depicted as objects to be obtained with the sole purpose of taking care of the home and children, and pleasing men. Lutz and Collin further argue that the depiction of black, bronze and white people media, like National Geographic, are responsible for the stereotypes they hold today. In Paula Heredia’s 1993 documentary, The Couple in the Cage, the artists, Coco Fusco and Guillermo Gomez-Peña, perform a satire that examines people’s stereotypes of indigenous people. In the film, the artists examine the people’s reactions as they travel the world,
This paper will explore the themes of race, sex and how stereotypes assign power to them. I will use Lutz and Collin’s article, “The Color of Sex: Postwar Photographic Histories of Race and Gender,” to examine the history behind race and gender as well as the stereotypes for different races and genders. I will also use director Heredia’s 1993 documentary, The Couple in the Cage, to examine how people of different countries depict and stereotype indigenous people. Finally, I will use directors Diamond, Bainbridge and Hayes’ 2009 documentary, The Real Injun, to examine how a camp for boys with a majority of white males depicts Native Americans. In this essay I show how different people depict race and gender to display that stereotypes are unjust and need to be challenged.
The following reading and documentaries focus on how race and gender stereotypes categorizes people. In Cathrine A. Lutz and Jane L. Collin’s article, “The Color of Sex: Postwar Photographic Histories of Race and Gender,” they …show more content…
The article concludes how black people were never subjects of photos and were depicted as less fortunate while women were depicted as objects to be obtained with the sole purpose of taking care of the home and children, and pleasing men. Lutz and Collin further argue that the depiction of black, bronze and white people media, like National Geographic, are responsible for the stereotypes they hold today. In Paula Heredia’s 1993 documentary, The Couple in the Cage, the artists, Coco Fusco and Guillermo Gomez-Peña, perform a satire that examines people’s stereotypes of indigenous people. In the film, the artists examine the people’s reactions as they travel the world,